[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Has there been any discussion/interest with the AspectJ folks about pulling > their JDE extensions into the "main" JDE distro? I know they forked > something called "AJDE" a while back, but now that they're off in > eclipse-land, that's probably not a huge priority (I am speculating, with no > information either way). > > In any event, I find myself writing aspectj code in emacs and wishing that > JDE groked the syntax and keywords. Does anyone else feel my pain? > > More productively, I'm curious to hear Paul's thoughts on how JDE should > (not) accomodate language extensions of this kind. There've been a lot of > these over the years and JDE has wisely ignored most of them, but it's my > opinion that AspectJ is likely to survive longer than some of the > niche-extensions, like SQLJ. Is it possible to shovel everything associated > with an extension of this kind into a minor mode? I'm guessing it won't > work with semantic unless someone puts together a grammar for the bovinator, > but could keywords and indentation be done that way? >
One approach might be to use the new "plugin" capability that JDEE 2.3.3 supports. This would allow people who are familiar with niche extensions to Java to develop and distribute independently JDEE extensions that support the Java extensions. - Paul > Apologies for the disconnected thoughts -- I'm not really sure what the > "right" thing to do is in this case. > > Eric
